Cairo is waiting for Riyadh officials to act on their bilateral agreements and to finalize the assignment of Tiran and Sanafir, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told the Egyptian website al-Nahar.

According to AlWatan, Egypt’s only daily independent newspaper in English: Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, covers up the internal crisis of the country by abusing the border disputes over Halayeb and Shalateen.